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Dearest Sacha,

As Kathy would say, it was raining little animals yesterday.

Papa was on his way home from a meeting when he spotted a tiny but very wet
kitten on the road, I guess trying to cross the street to a drier place. He
got off his motorcycle to retrieve the kitten. He said he asked a barangay
tanod to take care of it but when he looked back, he saw that he was not
minding it at all. So he went back to get the kitten, brought it home, and
told Jeanna to get it dry and take care of it until it was strong enough to
leave. I guess the kitten thought it was indeed strong enough to leave, or
it did not know a good home when it saw one, because the next time Jeanna
looked, the kitten was gone.

But we'll make sure Neko stays.

Love you always,
Mom

Dearest Sacha,

That wet little kitten didn't run away after all. It hid under the sofa in
the big studio. Eric and Jeanna take turns in giving it milk. When I told
Eric that we all thought it had run away, he assured us that it won't ever,
because here, it is safe, and it gets fed here while outside, it isn't and
it doesn't- reasons enough to stay. Papa, on the other hand, who rescued the
kitten and brought it home, has refused to give the kitten a name so that he
won't get emotionally attached to it. We'll see!

3. Neko's back!

She's still rather annoyed, though.

Heard a kitten inside the walls between my room and the bathroom.
What was that short story that had a cat meowing from within the
walls? For some reason, I couldn't bear to think of letting the cat
starve to death there, so Kathy and my dad pried out large sections of
the bathroom wall to get to the kitten.

Having rescued the kitten to the great detriment of the wall, we
tucked the kitten into a hurriedly scrounged-up shoebox and sped off
to the zoo. The kitten was fed, cleaned, and put to bed by one of
Kathy's friends, and we took the kitten back home after being given
some instructions on how to take care of her (her!).

There are some complications, of course. My dad is a bird person, my
sister is a dog person, and I don't know how the
KittenWhoMustNotBeNamed (my sister fears I'll get too attached if I
name her) will get along with Lucas (a big black Labrador), Kaygee (a
somewhat grumpy toy poodle) and Picco (the Lovebird of Death).

Maybe I'll get to keep her if I ask for her as my graduation present.
If I do get to keep her, I'll probably name her something like
"Nano". ;)

1. Kitten update

Well, the kitten is alive and well. She has switched to dry food,
learned how to walk (and climb - you should see her bound - there's no
doubt that cats live in a 3d world), and can win fights with Kaygee.

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